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Isotope Signature of Ammonoid Shells

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Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 43))

Abstract

Geochemical analyses of ammonoid shells provide an independent and objective data set to evaluate life and habitat of the animal. This uniformitarian consideration, in combination with functional morphology and physical evidence for ecology or physiology, potentially delivers a significant advantage for new insights in paleoecology. One difficulty is that ammonoids as a proxy carrier are assumed to be mobile organisms. In contrast to stationary proxy carriers like benthic bivalves, it is difficult to impossible to estimate absolute depth or locality in which a certain proxy was recorded. Although the temperature proxy is very informative, it could indicate alternative scenarios; shallower calcification depth or calcification in the warmer season. When the calcification temperature is calibrated against the thermal structure of the water column, the proxy records would be fully understood. Therefore, providing the external frame of references is significantly important for getting better insights from geochemical signatures on ammonoids.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to express the deepest appreciation to Prof. Hiromichi Hirano of Waseda University and Prof. Kazushige Tanabe of the University of Tokyo for their continuous encouragement and guidance. Without their help, this paper would not have been possible. I acknowledge Prof. J. Kirk Cochran and Benjamin Linzmeier for critical reading of the manuscript and for useful discussion. I also thank Profs. Hodaka Kawahata, and Kazuyoshi Endo of the University of Tokyo, Prof. Tatsuo Oji of Nagoya University, Prof. Hiroshi Nishi of Tohoku University, and Dr. Neil Landman of American Museum of Natural History for their fruitful discussion. Dr. Toyoho Ishimura of Ibaraki National College of Technology kindly provided some comments on oxygen isotopic thermometry. All figures except for Fig. 19.4, 19.6 and 19.7 were generated with Generic Mapping Tools (Wessel et al. 2013). Statistic analyses were made with R (Ihanka and Gentleman 1996).

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Moriya, K. (2015). Isotope Signature of Ammonoid Shells. In: Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., Mapes, R. (eds) Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology. Topics in Geobiology, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9630-9_19

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